Philosopher Quotes - Page 13

• Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

  Plato

  Men, Purpose, Upright Man

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• A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Reality, People

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• Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Edinburgh, Rich, Become Rich

  YouTube Channel "The University of Edinburgh"/"Dr Shah Rukh Khan - Life Lessons", www.youtube.com. October 16, 2015.

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• A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

  Jane Goldman

  Stars, Stardust, Star Gazing

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "Stardust", m.imdb.com. 2007.

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• A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

  Cornel West

  Lovers

  Source: genius.com

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• Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Enabling, Virtue

  Source: genius.com

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• what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Source: genius.com

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• The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Class, Luxury

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Timequake”, p.74, Random House

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• As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.

  N.D. Wilson

  Dream, Honesty, Reading

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• It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Academia, Easy, Difficult

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• Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

  Rex Stout

  Waste, Fool, Wasting Time

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• What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reality, Clothes, Would Be

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Home, Views, Games

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• Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Night, Thinking, People

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• The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

  Epicurus

  Suffering, Empty, Vain

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• Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, Light, Joy

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• A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

  Anton Chekhov

  Daughter, Eye, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.250, e-artnow

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• James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

  Humphry Davy

  Profound, Peculiar, Genius

  Sir Humphry Davy (2001). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I”

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• Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

  Robert Boyle

  Stones, Firsts, Chemistry

  Robert Boyle (1772). “The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...”, p.36

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• I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.

  Tom T. Hall

  Running, Philosophical, Mean

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• Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

  Gregory Chaitin

  Humanist, Mathematician

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• Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in The Incoherence of the Philosophers against the very idea of laws of nature, on the ground that any such laws would put God's hands in chains. According to al-Ghazzali, a piece of cotton placed in a flame does not darken and smoulder because of the heat, but because God wants it to darken and smoulder. After al-Ghazzali, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries.

  Steven Weinberg

  Country, Islamic, Flames

  "Islam and science – the 'hideous' way". www.the-tls.co.uk. January 18, 2007.

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• I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

  Daniel Dennett

  Answers, Scientist

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• The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Reflection, World, Imperfect

  Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson (2008). “Priestess of Avalon”, p.148, Penguin

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• The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

  Umberto Eco

  Winning, Poet

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